may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is … inferred and then related to trade. Findings suggest that (1) foreign competition pressures firms to raise productivity …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro … confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …

-enhancing investments in emerging economies. -- Total Factor Productivity (TFP) ; plant level data ; competitiveness and trade …

. Oligopolistic competition together with free entry make markups responsive to firm productivity and trade costs. Lowering trade …

added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade … the distributions of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) in terms of gross exports and value added for 40 countries. A … Systematic comparison of these distributions shows that the distributions of RCA calculated with gross exports and value added …

technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively … transfer sustains these basic messages. -- Intellectual property rights ; technology transfer ; exports …